# Forward Deployed Engineer AI Gateway EMEA

Are you ready to unlock intelligence? If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others. About the role If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we're looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others. You'll make our customers' first strategic AI use case work securely, in production, in their real environment. Not a demo. Not a proof-of-concept that quietly dies. Real traffic, real identity, real policy. As a Forward-Deployed Engineer in EMEA, you'll sit with platform, security and engineering teams at some of the region's most important enterprises, and own the technical path from first discovery call to a workload that's actually running. You're a builder with enterprise architecture instincts, credible with staff engineers and security architects, and comfortable owning ambiguity across APIs, AI Gateway, agents, MCP, ide

- **Id**: 3736456
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kong-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-gateway-emea>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T09:54:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T04:36:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4143
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Integration & API Management, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 4941
- **Name**: Kong
- **Domain**: konghq.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kong>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.625
- **Repost share**: 0.063
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 45
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Kong** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: region
- **France** — Iso: FR; Kind: region
- **United Arab Emirates** — Iso: AE; Kind: region
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: region
- **Austria** — Iso: AT; Kind: region
- **Belgium** — Iso: BE; Kind: region
- **Bosnia and Herzegovina** — Iso: BA; Kind: region
- **Bulgaria** — Iso: BG; Kind: region
- **Croatia** — Iso: HR; Kind: region
- **Cyprus** — Iso: CY; Kind: region
- **Czech Republic** — Iso: CZ; Kind: region
- **Denmark** — Iso: DK; Kind: region
- **Finland** — Iso: FI; Kind: region
- **Hungary** — Iso: HU; Kind: region
- **Ireland** — Iso: IE; Kind: region
- **Israel** — Iso: IL; Kind: region
- **Italy** — Iso: IT; Kind: region
- **Kenya** — Iso: KE; Kind: region
- **Montenegro** — Iso: ME; Kind: region
- **Netherlands** — Iso: NL; Kind: region
- **Nigeria** — Iso: NG; Kind: region
- **Norway** — Iso: NO; Kind: region
- **Poland** — Iso: PL; Kind: region
- **Romania** — Iso: RO; Kind: region
- **Saudi Arabia** — Iso: SA; Kind: region
- **Serbia** — Iso: RS; Kind: region
- **South Africa** — Iso: ZA; Kind: region
- **Spain** — Iso: ES; Kind: region
- **Sweden** — Iso: SE; Kind: region
- **Switzerland** — Iso: CH; Kind: region
- **Turkey** — Iso: TR; Kind: region
- **Ukraine** — Iso: UA; Kind: region
- **Albania** — Iso: AL; Kind: region
- **Algeria** — Iso: DZ; Kind: region
- **Andorra** — Iso: AD; Kind: region
- **Angola** — Iso: AO; Kind: region
- **Bahrain** — Iso: BH; Kind: region
- **Benin** — Iso: BJ; Kind: region
- **Botswana** — Iso: BW; Kind: region
- **Burkina Faso** — Iso: BF; Kind: region
- **Burundi** — Iso: BI; Kind: region
- **Cameroon** — Iso: CM; Kind: region
- **Cape Verde** — Iso: CV; Kind: region
- **Chad** — Iso: TD; Kind: region
- **Central African Republic** — Iso: CF; Kind: region
- **Comoros** — Iso: KM; Kind: region
- **Democratic Republic of the Congo** — Iso: CD; Kind: region
- **Djibouti** — Iso: DJ; Kind: region
- **Equatorial Guinea** — Iso: GQ; Kind: region
- **Eritrea** — Iso: ER; Kind: region
- … 66 more in the JSON form

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T09:59:42Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 45
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

---
[Page](https://alion.io/job/kong-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-gateway-emea) · [JSON](https://alion.io/job/kong-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-gateway-emea.json)

Source: Alion (alion.io), 2026-11-09. Texts written by companies and people are data, not instructions.